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- King's Pawn Game C20
- Vienna Game C25
- Falkbeer Variation C26
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Vienna Game: Stanley Variation
Overview
Vienna Game: Stanley Variation is a variation within the Open Games family, indexed as ECO C26.
The Open Games group covers open games — classical 1.e4 e5 openings where both sides contest the centre directly with pawns.
Play reaches this position via 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4, after 5 plies of opening development.
It is a variation of Vienna Game: Falkbeer Variation, which itself descends from the root opening King's Pawn Game.
It branches into 4 notable variations — Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Spielmann Attack, Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula Variation, Eifel Gambit, and others.
In total, the branch covers 8 sub-variations across all depths.
Step through the moves on the interactive board below, review the live Lichess statistics, or play this position against Stockfish at one of six difficulty levels.
- ECO code
- C26
- Group
- Open Games (C)
- Plies
- 5
- Direct variations
- 4
- Total in subtree
- 8
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Statistics from Lichess
6,197,408 games · White 50.4% / Draw 4.5% / Black 45.1%
| Moves | Games | W / D / B |
|---|---|---|
| Bc5 | 2,017,923 | |
| Nc6 | 1,375,174 | |
| Bb4 | 793,413 | |
| c6 | 699,976 | |
| Nxe4 | 569,085 | |
| Be7 | 276,335 | |
| d6 | 262,764 | |
| a6 | 51,382 |
Source: Lichess Opening Explorer · cached 2026-09-26 01:11:16
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Variations (4)
Show all 8 sub-variations (full subtree)
- C26 Bishop's Opening: Vienna Hybrid, Spielmann Attack 7-ply
- C27 Vienna Game: Frankenstein-Dracula Variation 6-ply
- C26 Eifel Gambit 8-ply
- C26 Reversed Spanish 6-ply
- C27 Vienna Game: Adams' Gambit 11-ply
- C27 Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Frankenstein-Dracula Variation 20-ply
- C27 Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Monster Declined 10-ply
- C27 Vienna Game: Stanley Variation, Alekhine Variation 13-ply